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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Mercutio - The Untold Story

Michael Pennington, Shakespeare and Star Wars actor, dies aged 82

‘Brilliant, wise’ co-founder of English Shakespeare Company celebrated for roles including Macbeth and Mercutio

The Guardian - UK

‘We laced Nicole into her corset and her rib broke again’: Moulin Rouge at 25 – an oral history by cast and crew

Stagehands poured Coca-Cola on the floor, Ewan McGregor waved his lightsaber, and people did unspeakable things with the film’s Oscars at the post-awards-ceremony party. Director Baz Luhrmann, Jim Broadbent and more recall filming the record-breaking movie

The Guardian - UK

Romeo & Juliet review: Sadie Sink is a magnificent Juliet in a powerful revival

4/5 Robert Icke’s production with Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe has clarity, speed and dazzling touches

Evening Standard

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New Australian–Irish coproduction of Roméo et Juliette grasps the spiritual quality of the opera

State Opera South Australia’s production of Charles Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, co-produced with the West Australian Opera and the Irish National Opera, heralds a new globalised collaboration.

The Conversation

Romeo and Juliet review – star-crossed lovers transported to the wild west

Director Sean Holmes’s high concept production shows that the frontier works surprisingly well as Shakespeare’s fractious Verona

The Guardian - UK

Romeo + Juliet review – maximalist Broadway reinvention goes too far

West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler and Heartstopper’s Kit Connor lift an aggressively poppy new youth take on the tragic romance

The Guardian - US

Benjamin Millepied’s Romeo and Juliet Suite review – a surprising, often thrilling experience

Choreographer’s queer, condensed version dissolves the boundaries of the stage and, in a brilliant passage of dancing, the walls of the Joan Sutherland theatre itself

The Guardian - AU

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Romeo & Juliet at Duke of York’s Theatre review: Tom Holland is amazing in this buzzy Shakespeare reinvention

Holland and Francesca Amewuda-Rivers make the most spellbinding star-crossed lovers in years

Evening Standard

The Week on Stage: From Romeo and Juliet to When Winston Went to War with the Wireless

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

How to paint a theatrical great: Alexander Newley on his portraits of Judi Dench and Derek Jacobi

In an extract from his book ‘Divining the Human’, artist Alexander Newley takes readers behind the scenes of portrait sittings with great actors

The Independent UK

Derek Jacobi: high ticket prices are making theatre ‘elitist’

Veteran actor, awarded Olivier for lifetime achievement, says cost must not prohibit putting ‘bums on seats’

The Guardian - UK

Romeo and Juliet review – the Australian Ballet triumphs over a rapturous score that gives the dancers a run for their money

An emotionally compelling take on the Shakespearean classic demonstrates the depth of talent in a company at the height of their powers

The Guardian - AU

O-T Fagbenle is showing us a different side of Barack Obama on 'The First Lady'

“My job was to find out what are the insecurities? What are the fears? What are the times he messed up?

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